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stbtasphemies of loco-fo coism the recent tract no 4 said to be written by amos kendall which the mem bers of congress of the loco-loco party are now franking and circulating througn the united suites contains the following jfwto can look back to the falsehood the fraud the intemperance the debauch eries the shows the mummenes and the general demoralization in the wingca , mlot ' 1840 and then turn his e>es to theÂ°events which followed without men ,. t ]| v exclaiming it is god's will it is gods justice if tne judgments upon the egyptians for the oppression of the israelites were more terrible than those which have overtaken our whig breth ren they were scarcely less remarkable thi contesl had not ended when these almost supernatural demonstrations be gan the punishments which were inflicted on the people for refusing to elect mr van buren and which are termed acts of god's j us ice are the following events . 1 the death of the son of gen harri son 2 the falling of the statue of justice in fronl of the capitol 3 tlie falling of the eagle from over the chair of the president of the senate i the falling of the portrait of gen'l harrison from the walls of the congres sional library ' without shake or jar !' â€¢ three alarms of lire in washington on the nighl preceding the arrival of gen harrison 6 wire seekers crowded washington as thick as the frogs of egypt about this same time cannons were tired off in th dight at washington awaking amos kendall's babies the modesty pf mr k prevented him from mentioning this circumstance and we therefore hope it will be inserted in the next edition of yact no 4 â€” express * the death of rev mr cookman in the steamer president because he preach ed lus last sermon in the presence of gen hair son 8 ihe dea'h of gen macomb because he followed the funeral procession of gen harrison to the tomb 9 tlie burning of general harrison's house at north bvnd probably the work of some loco foco who was execu iing ; i bvine justice as he understood it 10 the death of mr ogle of pennsyl vania 1 1 the passage of lhe bankrupt law 12 the death of gen harrison 13 crimes in general all over the land 14 the death of the wife of president m.t 15 the death of the hon mr lc iirr 16 the death of upshur and gilmer 17 the death of mr biddle 18 three funerals at the white house itnee 1841 19 the death of mr twogood at new orleans at a clay meeting w a military parade in new orleans on sunday in presence of mr clay ckich didn't take place 21 the falling of the clay club house hi richmond where one man lost his life ui several were maimed 22 the failure of the banks says nothing about thc failure of 1837 just al tr mr van buren was elected this singularly blending together of events mournful and by associating ludi crous is an exhibilion of lhe moral state of the parly at once striking and charac cti'sfic the death of a clergyman l>e ause he preached in lhe presence of gen harrison : and lhe falling of a gilt eagle in lie capitol are both set down as events inflicted by divine 1 justice â€” gen macomb is stricken down by the arrow of the almighty because he atten ded the funeral of harrison and the fal ling of a portrait ' wi.hout a shake or slit are classed together as events equal in mportance and equal in evidence of the btate of the divine mind considering however the state of the morals of the party generally it is not surprising that heir discrimination should not be very lice in the matters of this sort but a spectable is here presented lo cofocoism treading where angels dare not filter expounding the divine will by the tiispensations of providence here is a parly whose origin it is well known was in the lowest sinks of infidelity in this ci ty ; fanny wright was iheir leader and founder yet ihey dare to come out as expositors of divine justice â€” a york exprt ss in order lo form a correct opinion of a man it is perhaps well to hear what his own folks say of him we therefore give to enquiring persons the following extract from the cheraw gazette as a pretty fair specimen of ihe opinion en tertained of mr van buren by at least some of ihe tlie democracy mr clay â€” allhough politically op posed to mr clay's views and sentiments pÂ»i many great questions of national pol icy we cannot but admin 1 his open n ' ss and candor we have read with feelings almost amounting to admiration i 1 '' hold avowals of his principles on all occasions where he addressed his i'ellow ciiizens in the south even in the midst ot his political enemies during the course ol his recent pilgrimage â€” for in despite of his repeated and distinct disavowal of all intention of turning his journey to in ew orleans to political account facts prove to the contrary and we have ask *? ourselves this quest ion would mr * an buren have thus acted or would he jfcje veiled in a multiplicity of words jj in eloquent speeches replete with j ril oothly rounded unmeaning sentences jjj real views and feelings ? and the an j has been any thing but favorable to * b?2 h " d(i ol tiie emocratic ranks of ou air ' camoun deen tne nominee party with what enthusiasm would the carolina watchman i brum & james ) > " keer a check iton all your editor sp proprietors \ is sa fe r ( new series rrlers - cfeirsarrtt \ number 2 of volume i salisbury n c may 11 1844 we not have rallieao overthrow the prin ciples of our opponents â€” but under a lea der in whom we hae no confidence we arc shorn of our stretch and will suffer defeat without scarcer an effort to main tain our rights or even ivenge our wrongs but the day of retributicti is near at hand when the high qualificatims of our favorite candidate will be rewaned by the unani mous acclamation of a jut and generous nation fttteteluumub the following most excelent article on the formation of habits wuch we ex tract from " todd's students manuel deserves the attention of all btt it most particularly claims the attention if youths who have not yet established ther habits for life to them therefore wt com mend it habits the whole character may be said obe comprehended in the term habits ; so hat it is not so far from being true tiat â€¢' man is a bundle of habits suppose you were compelled to wear an iron cil iar about your neck through life or i chain upon your ankle ; would it not bt a burden every day and hour of your ex istence i you rise in the morning a pri soner to your chain ; you lie down at night weary wiih the burden and you groan the more deeply as you reflect that there is no shaking it off but even this would be no more intolerable to bear than many of the habits of men ; nor would it \ vie more dilficult to be shaken off habits are easily formed â€” especially such as are bad ; and what to-day seems to he a small affair will soon become fixed and hold you with the strength of a cable j that same cable you will recollect is j formed by spinning and twisting one i thread at a time ; but when once com ! pleted the proudest ship turns her head ! towards it and acknowledges her subjec tion to its power habits of some kind will be formed by every student he will have a particu lar course in which his time his employ ments his thoughts and feelings will run good or bad these habits soon become a part of himself and a kind of second na ture who does not know that the old man who has occupied a particular cor ner of the old lire-place in the old house lor sixty years may be rendered wretch ed by a change 1 who has not read of lhe release of the aged prisoner of the bastile who enlreated that he might a gain return to his gloomy dungeon be cause his habits there formed were so strong that his nature threatened losink under the attempt to break them up ? â€” you will probably iind no man of forty who has not habits which he laments which mar his usefulness but which are so interwoven with his very being that he cannot break through them at least he has not the courage to try i am ex pecting you will form habits indeed i wish you to do so he must be a poor character indeed who lives so extempore as not to have habits of his own but what i wish is that you form those hab its which are correct and such as will ev ery day and hour add to your happiness and usefulness if a man were to be told that he must use the axe which he now selects through life would he not be care ful in selecting one of the right propor tions and temper ( if told that he must wear the same clothing through life would he not be anxious as to the quali ty and kind but these in the cases sup posed would be of no more importance than is the selection of habits in which the soul shall act you might as well place the body in a strait-jacket and ex pect it to perform with ease and com ' fort and promptness the various duties of ihe body as to throw the soul into the habits of some men and then expect it will accomplish any thing great or good do not fear to undertake to form any habit which is desirable ; for it can be formed and that with more ease than you may at iirst suppose let the same thing or the same duty return at the same time every day and it will become pleasant no matter if it be irksome at first : but how irksome soever it may be only let it return periodically every day and that without any interruption for a time and it will become a positive pleasure in this way all our habits are formed the student who can with ease now sit down and hold his mind down to his studies nine or ten hours a day would find the laborer or the man accustomed to active habits sinking under it should he at tempt to do the same thing i have seen a man sit down at the table spread with luxury and eat his sailor's biscuit with relish and without a desire for any other food his health had compelled him thus to live till it had become a pleasant hab it of diet previous to this however he had been rather noted for being an epi cure " i once attended a prisoner says an excellent man " of some distinction in one of the prisons of the metropolis ill of a typhus fever whose apartments were gloomy in the extreme and surrounded with horrors yet this prisoner assured me afterwards that upon his release he quitted them with a degree of reluctance custom had reconciled him to the twilight admitted through the thick-barred grate to the filthy spots and patches of his plas tered walls to the hardness of his bed and even to confinement i shall specify habits which in my view are very desirable to the student and at the same time endeavot to give specific directions how to form them 1 have apian laid beforehand for ev ery day these plans ought to be maturely for med the evening previous and on rising in the morning again looked at and im mediately entered upon it is astonish ing how much more we accomplish in a single day and what of else is life made up '.) by having the plan previously mark ed out it is so in every thing this morning a man was digging a path through a deep snow-bank it was al most insupporlably cold and he seemed to make but little headway though he worked as if upon a wager at length getting out of breath he paused and mark ed out the width of the path with his sho vel then marked out the width of each shovel-full and consequently the amount of snow at each throw of the shovel in fifteen minutes he had done more and it was done neater and easier than in thir ty minutes previous when working with out a plan it is of little consequence by what we illustrate if we make a thing , clear and impress it upon the mind i i have found in my own experience as nuch difference in the labors of two days i vhen working with or without a plan | as at least one half without having the i satisfaction in the latter case of know ing what i have done experience will tell any man that he is j most successful in his own pursuits when he is most careful as to method a man â– of my acquaintance has a small slate which hangs at his study-table on that he generally finds in the morning his work for the day written down ; and in lhe evening he re views it sees if he has omitted any thing and if so chides him self that all is not done to make this clear i copy here what was found on his slate for one day as i saw it this morn ing :â€” a horse errands and dig paths b carry my child to school and pay postage bill c write from 9 till dinner*[at 1 o'clock d write to c inviting him â€” also to 1 at n h /. visit mr m sick also the two fam ilies in maple street g get some straw for horse wherever it can be purchased h prepare and preach this evening i examine the sixth vol of b to see if any thing is there which i want j last not least to lix the pump so that it will not freeze up if at the close of the day he finds these items all accomplished and that in such a way as to satisfy conscience he feels that the day has not been lost some times he finds he has misjudged and has marked out more than he can do ; some times he is hindered by unexpected inter ruptions and therefore cannot do all or even half he calculated to do these must be all weighed every night at the review be sure and review every night and when you have balanced the account with conscience lay out what you will do for the next day such a system will not make a noisy blustering character the river that rolls a heavy burden of water to the ocean is the stream which keeps the channel and is noiseless in its course there is a prescribed routine of duties marked out by your teachers these of course will come in your every-day plans ; but in ad dition to these you ought to do something by way of acquiring or retaining infor mation or something to add to the happi ness of your friends or of your compan ions let me suppose you mark out your plan for to-morrow thus : â€” 1 walk to the pond 1 1-2 mile imme ately after breakfast 2 lesson and recitation 3 write to my mother acknowledging her letter and bundle 4 review and see if i can read the gth eclogue of virgil without looking in to the dictionary or grammar regu lar course of review 5 lesson and recitation walk till tea 6 see if i can go through the 24th proposition of euclid 1st b at once â€” regular review 7 visit smith's room and explain the remark which i made to-day and at which he seemed hurt 8 lesson for the morning e 0 note the three facts respecting de mosthenes in my common-place book 10 talk over the question for dispute in the society with my chum 11 read the n 3w magazine which mo ther has just sent me at first you will feel discouraged in not being able to do as much work as you mark out but you will do more and more from day to day as you proceed ; and you will soon be astonished at seeing how much can be accomplished if you choose you can have a book instead uf a slate which will be also a kind of jour nal of your life full of interesting memo randa 2 acquire the habit of untiring indus try should you be so unfortunate as to sup i pose you are a genius and that " things will come to you it would be well to un deceive yourself as soon as possible â€” make up your mind that industry must : be the price of all you obtain and at once begin to pay down " diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises it is a matter of unatfeeted amazement to see vtihat industry alone will accomplish we are astonished at the volumes which the men of former a ges used to write but the term inelustry â€¢ is the key to the whole secret " he that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of lhe globe there is no state so bad for the student as idle ness and no habit so pernicious and j yet none is so easily acquired or so dilfi 1 ; cult to be thrown off the idle man soon grows torpid and becomes the indian in : his feelings insensibly adopting their maxim â€” " it is better to walk than to run i and better to sit than to stand and better ' 'â– â– to lie than to sit probably the man who deserves the most of pity is he who is most idle ; for as " there are said to be pleasures to madness known only to mad men there are certainly miseries in idle ness which only the idle can conceive i am aware that many are exceedingly busy who are not industrious for it ve ry frequently happens that he who is most hurried and bustling is very far from being industrious a shrewd man can easily discover the difference " he i that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavors to crowd | his mind with something that may bar | out the remembrance of his own folly j and does any thing but what he ought to ; do with eager diligence that he may \ keep himself in his own favor it is perfectly clear that he who is in dustrious has really the most of leisure ; for his time is marked out into distinct portions to each of which something is assigned ; and when the thing is dune the man is at leisure ; but a dead calm settles over him who lives an idle life â€” better that the waters be straitened and , burst over their banks than that they be i too sluggish to move at all who would ; not prefer to put to sea even in a storm and in a gale hurry over the waters ra [ ther than lie for weeks becalmed ? it is said that when scanderbeg prince of epirus was dead the turks wished to ; get his bones that each one might wear a piece near his heart and thus obtain ; some part of that courage which he had i while living and which they had too of | ten experienced in battle what a bles i sing if the idle might obtain some such j charm that would rouse them up to hab â– its of industry ! seneca assures his friend in a letter that there " was not a day in 1 which he did not either write something or read and epitomize some good author so universal has the opinion of men been on the point that in order to excel you must be industrious that idlers have re ceived the just appellation of fools at large you would be surprised to know how many hours slip away from the man who is not systematically industrious â€” " such was his unwearied assiduity and diligence that he seemed to pray con stantly to preach constantly to catechize constantly and to visit the sick exhort ing from house to house to teach as much i in the schools and spend as much time with the students and young men in fit ting them for the ministry as if he had been sequestrate from all the world be sides and yet withal to write as much us if he had been constantly shut up in his study it is easy for the student to form good plans of study and of daily habits and to draw them out on paper all perfected â€” but the dilhculty is they are found no where but on paper ; and because you cannot at once reach them you sit down and give up an untiring industry it was a matter of astonishment to europe that luther amid all his travels and active la bors could present a very perfect trans lation of the whole bible but a single word explains it all he had a rigid sys tem of doing something every day â€” " nulla dies says he in answer to the question how he did it â€” " nulla dies sine versu ;" and this^soon brought him to the close of the whole bible i have never known a man whose hab its of every-day industry were so good as those of jeremiah evarts during years of close observation in the bosom of his family i never saw a day pass without his accomplishing more than he expected and so regular was he in all his habits that i knew to a moment when i should find him with his pen and when with his tooth-brush in his hand ; and so method ical and thorough that though his papers filled many shelves when closely tied up there was not a paper among all his let ; ters correspondence editorial matter and the like which was not labelled and in its place and upon which he could not lay his hand in a moment i never knew him search for a paper ; â€” it was always in its place i have never yet met with the man whose industry was so great or who would accomplish so much in a given time " pray of what did your brother die i said the marquis spinola to sir horace vere " hf died sir replied he " of having nothing to do " alas sir said ! spinola " that is enough to kill any gen ; eral of us all domesthenes as is well known copied thucydides history eight times with his own hand merely to make himself fami liar with the style of that great man there are two proverbs one among the turks and the other among the spaniards both of which contain much that is true " a busy man is troubled wiih but one devil but the idle man with a thousand " men are usually tempted by the devil but lhe idle man positively tempts the devil how much corrupting company how many temptations to do wrong how many seasons of danger to your charac ter and damrer to the peace of your friends would you escape by forming the habit of being decidedly industrious eve ry day ! [ to be continued ] wonderful discorerics â€” we are almost daily presented with the evidences of anti-de luvian curiosities which excite the wonder of the learned in digging the levels of a kail â€¢ road in france they came to an entire mound of skeletons of elephants and other asiatic animals as if groups had been collected and overwhelmed in the dtluge in arkansas recently the bones of a mastadon were found of wonderful size â€” the hall or head of the thigh hone shows the probable length of the animal to have been forty-nine feet ! among the bones of the head was found a tusk of im mense size and weight measuring twenty-nine inches at its lanrest extremity eighteen feet in length and weighing near three hundred pounds the situation in the stru ture of the animal 1 of this immense tusk or its use cannot be de termined from the new york observer an antidote to rum a serious obstacle in the xvay of the inebri ; ate who is half persuaded to abandon his cups ! is found in the tormenting thirst his intempe ! rate habits have induced and cultivated the description of his thirst given by many from bitter expedience proves it to be an efiect pe culiar to intoxicating liquors nothing else i will produce it ; hut alcohol even in a com paratively small quantity does not fail to excite ! it it is sure to follow a night's debauch ; and as the intemperate habits become strengthened so does thirst rage with increasing power now what is the wretched victim to do when he feels this inward lire consuming his vitals ' we tell him to quit the practice of using intoxi cating drinks at once and the advice is good no other course is safe he is lost if he does not quit at once tampering with the enemy is only courting destruction but the obstacle is yet lying in his way the unfortunate man tells you of his tiery thirst and can nothing be done for him ? how can he cure his thirst i water may allay it for the moment : hut the relief is not only momentary indeed where . habits have been long confirmed water only increases the horrid burning here if we mistake not is the hidden secret of the power with which alcohol holds fast its slave water cannot quench his thirst ; and maddened with its racing he seizes again the poisoned cup to gain relief â€” a fearful method ot relief which though it drowns his thirst for the â– time is adding constant fuel to the flame that is consuming him is there then no antidote ? it is^believed there is it is believed that by substituting a simple draught of milk this alcoholic thirst may not on!v be relieved but cured l"t the ine briate who would escape from this degradation when his thirst returns â€” tor return it will be when the hour returns when he has been ac customed to gratify his appetite â€” let him make free use of milk and in a tew days he will lind his thirst entirely removed this opinion is not without the support of facts some years ago we fell in company in a stage coach with a man of respectable ap pearance who as the conversation turned upon the subject of temperance related briefly his own experience he had been a contractor on one of the canals in the western part of the state while engaged in this work he ac quired insensibly the habit of daily using in toxicating liquor though in moderate quanti ties on returning t his family he discovered that the habit had become more firmly fixed than he had ever supposed it could be the want of his " morning dr.wn his neon-day tod dy and his evening sling rendered him un easy water did not satisfy him his food had lost its relish surprised and alarmed at the strength of the habit that had thus grown upon him unperceived he saw he was in dan ger and determined however importunate hie thirst might be to resist it sueh was his , state when seeing a pitcher of milk on the ta . ble before sitting down he t<>..k a plentiful . draught ; and mark the result his thirst was slaked and he enjoyed his breakfast with a . healthful relish when the accustomed hour of 11 arrived his thirst returned though with somewhat abated strength a draught of milk again removed it ; and in a few days the cure was completed rejoiced with the discovery he communicated it to others who desired to ' break the iondage in which alcohol was ensla ving them the effect in every case he as sured rhe was similar 4o that which had given him so much happiness in his own this test j.men of my fellow passenger brought to my recollection another case bearing upon the same point i had a college class-mate dissipated notorious for his abandoned life his evil courses became known to the faculty who after employing in vain every means of ' reforming him were forced to proceed to the last resort and expel him from the institution this man on coming to the table alter his night's debauch before partaking of food w accustomed to call tor milk and to drink witn eagerness the largest quantities he could obtain having noticed the almost desperation with which he seized the milk i once enquired the cause he acknowledged the dissipation in which he had indulged the previous night de scribed the raging thirst which he endured in 1 consequence and said that milk was the only thing that could extinguish that internal fire or excite an appetite for food the above suggestions i have boon induced to make public in the hope of contributing some aid t the glorious reformation now in progress among those who have too long been passed by as lost beyond discovery we have at last discovered that there is a hope f r the poor inebriate and when he is urged to break away from his cups let him he induced to make the experiment whether milk will not slake that burning thirst and alleviate if not entirely pre vent the horrors he sutlers in the returning of his constitution to a sober healthy state an english whaler has returned to hull from davis's straits having touched at furrv-hcach the spot where captain ross the celebrated explorer and commander of the victory pass ed twenty-four lÂ«>ng months some eighteen years ago â– the surgeon of the whaler land ed in company with a beat's crew at the house which was constructed by captain rosa â€” where they found abundanee > f sti its and pro visions which though exposed to the weather for eighteen years were with the exception of some of the stores in a good state of preserva tion they consisted of fl hit sugar pickles carrots salmon dcc the three last are in can nisters hermetically sealed there were also anchors cables iron work and other things tor ships use nothing was permitted to be re moved except some trilling articles as a relic those things having been left there tor the use of distressed mariners the house is entire and with seine trifling repairs would yet afford comfortable accommodation to a crew of up wards of fifty men for sii.-h a number there is a sufficient quantity of fuel and provisions to last one winter v at a late celebration a poor man offered the following toast : " here's a health to poverty : it sticks hv you when all oilier friends forsake you mr van buren am the salt tariff of 1-27 our readers have not forgotten the indigna tion expressed a few weeks since by the editor of the enquirer at the lax laid upon salt by the tariff of 1842 it was made the theme of one of those appeals to the prejudices ot its auti-de luvians with which that paper is wont to abound whenever the editor supposes he has discovered a point upon which they are peculiarly sensi tive we are told that this tax like the frogs of egypt had insinuated itseli'into every house hold and even found its way.into the dinner pot of the poor man that this was all assertion unsustained by the least shadow of proof and that the editor very well knew it to he so we were certain at the time : and the statements of resectable nnychants dealers in the article who subscribe to the fact that salt is cheaper at this moment than it has been for years served only to confirm a foregone conviction but we will admit for an instant and for the sake ot argument that a tax on salt has the ne cessary effect of raising its price and thus im posing an additional burden on the poor man we presume it had the same effect in 1827 that it has now let us see who voted against reducing the tax on sa f t nt thi time the tm lowing statement is transcribed from the jour nal of the senate of the united states january 4 1^27 â€” mr smith of maryland from the committee of finance reported a bill repealing in part the doty on imported salt which was read and ordered to a second read ing january 5 â€” read the second time and coo sidered as in committee of the whole and on motion of mr holmes ordered that it be post poned and made the older of the day tor mon day next february 2 â€” it was a^ain the order of the dav and resumed in committee of the \\ hole when on motion of mr van buren the senate adjourned february 5 â€” the senate resumed as ia committee ef the whole the hill repealing in part the duly on our imported salt and no amendment having been made hitherto it was reported to the senate and on the question shall this bill be engrossed arid read a third time it was determined in thi affirmative i 22 navs 20 tazewell absent â€” randolph voting yea van buren say february 15 â€” the hiil having been report ed by the committee correctly engrossed was read the thiid time and on the question shall this bill pass it was decided in the affirmative it',i 24 nays 21 and the yeas and navs being demanded van buren votkb icay h tazewell not present and raudolph voting yea so the bill parsed thus it will e seen that martin van buren voted in all it stages against the bill reducing the duty on salt we do not pretend to impugn his motives }{,; may have l.nown that the uine effect would be produced whieh the tariff of 1842 has cau>e 1 viz : that a reduction of price would take place but let him hear the full burden of his sin if the tariff on salt i a reason for voting against mr clav it is likewise one fir voting against martin van bu^en â€” rtrhm>m4 whig â€¢ salt salt the locofoco free traders is their papers and speeches are con'inuallv harpinc about the " increased duty on salt "' in tie whig tariff when th fad is it is vest than tt enr i*a be . fore the duiv on silt in the present taritf is reduced below what it ever was before un der the tariffed 1Â«16 it was 2(1 cent s a bushel 1*24 " 20 Â« u ja-js " 20 " " h iv;}-2 " 10 " m " 1642 Â» 8 " yes and it should nÂ»rer he f rrr'tft^n that in favor of the tariff of l*ltj voted john c cal houn richard m johnson samuel d ngham altred cuuv>ert.and many her of thai party for tbetanftof 1824 vÂ«ted haiti van bu ren andrew jackcon thomas h benton richard m johnson jan buchanan fcr for the tariff of 1928 voted martin van buren richard m johnson tinman ii ben ton james buchanan sila wright charles a wicklitfe dec yet a duty of * cent a bushel <-.;_ salt i now a most unnardonablr sin because it i laid in an act passed by a whic congress ! the poor man is grouad to death with such * heavy tax and he is told over and over a^ain how the in supportable burden enters into every*mouthml of food be eats can it lÂ»e possible that the people will permit iheraselve to be imposed upon bv such base attempt at deception ! are nol decent and enlightened men of which there are too man in the locofoco party ashamed of a cause which is onh sustained by such means â€” fayellevillr observer a traveller writing from italy says that the roman forum is now a cow market and the palace of the caezars a rope-walk

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stbtasphemies of loco-fo coism the recent tract no 4 said to be written by amos kendall which the mem bers of congress of the loco-loco party are now franking and circulating througn the united suites contains the following jfwto can look back to the falsehood the fraud the intemperance the debauch eries the shows the mummenes and the general demoralization in the wingca , mlot ' 1840 and then turn his e>es to theÂ°events which followed without men ,. t ]| v exclaiming it is god's will it is gods justice if tne judgments upon the egyptians for the oppression of the israelites were more terrible than those which have overtaken our whig breth ren they were scarcely less remarkable thi contesl had not ended when these almost supernatural demonstrations be gan the punishments which were inflicted on the people for refusing to elect mr van buren and which are termed acts of god's j us ice are the following events . 1 the death of the son of gen harri son 2 the falling of the statue of justice in fronl of the capitol 3 tlie falling of the eagle from over the chair of the president of the senate i the falling of the portrait of gen'l harrison from the walls of the congres sional library ' without shake or jar !' â€¢ three alarms of lire in washington on the nighl preceding the arrival of gen harrison 6 wire seekers crowded washington as thick as the frogs of egypt about this same time cannons were tired off in th dight at washington awaking amos kendall's babies the modesty pf mr k prevented him from mentioning this circumstance and we therefore hope it will be inserted in the next edition of yact no 4 â€” express * the death of rev mr cookman in the steamer president because he preach ed lus last sermon in the presence of gen hair son 8 ihe dea'h of gen macomb because he followed the funeral procession of gen harrison to the tomb 9 tlie burning of general harrison's house at north bvnd probably the work of some loco foco who was execu iing ; i bvine justice as he understood it 10 the death of mr ogle of pennsyl vania 1 1 the passage of lhe bankrupt law 12 the death of gen harrison 13 crimes in general all over the land 14 the death of the wife of president m.t 15 the death of the hon mr lc iirr 16 the death of upshur and gilmer 17 the death of mr biddle 18 three funerals at the white house itnee 1841 19 the death of mr twogood at new orleans at a clay meeting w a military parade in new orleans on sunday in presence of mr clay ckich didn't take place 21 the falling of the clay club house hi richmond where one man lost his life ui several were maimed 22 the failure of the banks says nothing about thc failure of 1837 just al tr mr van buren was elected this singularly blending together of events mournful and by associating ludi crous is an exhibilion of lhe moral state of the parly at once striking and charac cti'sfic the death of a clergyman l>e ause he preached in lhe presence of gen harrison : and lhe falling of a gilt eagle in lie capitol are both set down as events inflicted by divine 1 justice â€” gen macomb is stricken down by the arrow of the almighty because he atten ded the funeral of harrison and the fal ling of a portrait ' wi.hout a shake or slit are classed together as events equal in mportance and equal in evidence of the btate of the divine mind considering however the state of the morals of the party generally it is not surprising that heir discrimination should not be very lice in the matters of this sort but a spectable is here presented lo cofocoism treading where angels dare not filter expounding the divine will by the tiispensations of providence here is a parly whose origin it is well known was in the lowest sinks of infidelity in this ci ty ; fanny wright was iheir leader and founder yet ihey dare to come out as expositors of divine justice â€” a york exprt ss in order lo form a correct opinion of a man it is perhaps well to hear what his own folks say of him we therefore give to enquiring persons the following extract from the cheraw gazette as a pretty fair specimen of ihe opinion en tertained of mr van buren by at least some of ihe tlie democracy mr clay â€” allhough politically op posed to mr clay's views and sentiments pÂ»i many great questions of national pol icy we cannot but admin 1 his open n ' ss and candor we have read with feelings almost amounting to admiration i 1 '' hold avowals of his principles on all occasions where he addressed his i'ellow ciiizens in the south even in the midst ot his political enemies during the course ol his recent pilgrimage â€” for in despite of his repeated and distinct disavowal of all intention of turning his journey to in ew orleans to political account facts prove to the contrary and we have ask *? ourselves this quest ion would mr * an buren have thus acted or would he jfcje veiled in a multiplicity of words jj in eloquent speeches replete with j ril oothly rounded unmeaning sentences jjj real views and feelings ? and the an j has been any thing but favorable to * b?2 h " d(i ol tiie emocratic ranks of ou air ' camoun deen tne nominee party with what enthusiasm would the carolina watchman i brum & james ) > " keer a check iton all your editor sp proprietors \ is sa fe r ( new series rrlers - cfeirsarrtt \ number 2 of volume i salisbury n c may 11 1844 we not have rallieao overthrow the prin ciples of our opponents â€” but under a lea der in whom we hae no confidence we arc shorn of our stretch and will suffer defeat without scarcer an effort to main tain our rights or even ivenge our wrongs but the day of retributicti is near at hand when the high qualificatims of our favorite candidate will be rewaned by the unani mous acclamation of a jut and generous nation fttteteluumub the following most excelent article on the formation of habits wuch we ex tract from " todd's students manuel deserves the attention of all btt it most particularly claims the attention if youths who have not yet established ther habits for life to them therefore wt com mend it habits the whole character may be said obe comprehended in the term habits ; so hat it is not so far from being true tiat â€¢' man is a bundle of habits suppose you were compelled to wear an iron cil iar about your neck through life or i chain upon your ankle ; would it not bt a burden every day and hour of your ex istence i you rise in the morning a pri soner to your chain ; you lie down at night weary wiih the burden and you groan the more deeply as you reflect that there is no shaking it off but even this would be no more intolerable to bear than many of the habits of men ; nor would it \ vie more dilficult to be shaken off habits are easily formed â€” especially such as are bad ; and what to-day seems to he a small affair will soon become fixed and hold you with the strength of a cable j that same cable you will recollect is j formed by spinning and twisting one i thread at a time ; but when once com ! pleted the proudest ship turns her head ! towards it and acknowledges her subjec tion to its power habits of some kind will be formed by every student he will have a particu lar course in which his time his employ ments his thoughts and feelings will run good or bad these habits soon become a part of himself and a kind of second na ture who does not know that the old man who has occupied a particular cor ner of the old lire-place in the old house lor sixty years may be rendered wretch ed by a change 1 who has not read of lhe release of the aged prisoner of the bastile who enlreated that he might a gain return to his gloomy dungeon be cause his habits there formed were so strong that his nature threatened losink under the attempt to break them up ? â€” you will probably iind no man of forty who has not habits which he laments which mar his usefulness but which are so interwoven with his very being that he cannot break through them at least he has not the courage to try i am ex pecting you will form habits indeed i wish you to do so he must be a poor character indeed who lives so extempore as not to have habits of his own but what i wish is that you form those hab its which are correct and such as will ev ery day and hour add to your happiness and usefulness if a man were to be told that he must use the axe which he now selects through life would he not be care ful in selecting one of the right propor tions and temper ( if told that he must wear the same clothing through life would he not be anxious as to the quali ty and kind but these in the cases sup posed would be of no more importance than is the selection of habits in which the soul shall act you might as well place the body in a strait-jacket and ex pect it to perform with ease and com ' fort and promptness the various duties of ihe body as to throw the soul into the habits of some men and then expect it will accomplish any thing great or good do not fear to undertake to form any habit which is desirable ; for it can be formed and that with more ease than you may at iirst suppose let the same thing or the same duty return at the same time every day and it will become pleasant no matter if it be irksome at first : but how irksome soever it may be only let it return periodically every day and that without any interruption for a time and it will become a positive pleasure in this way all our habits are formed the student who can with ease now sit down and hold his mind down to his studies nine or ten hours a day would find the laborer or the man accustomed to active habits sinking under it should he at tempt to do the same thing i have seen a man sit down at the table spread with luxury and eat his sailor's biscuit with relish and without a desire for any other food his health had compelled him thus to live till it had become a pleasant hab it of diet previous to this however he had been rather noted for being an epi cure " i once attended a prisoner says an excellent man " of some distinction in one of the prisons of the metropolis ill of a typhus fever whose apartments were gloomy in the extreme and surrounded with horrors yet this prisoner assured me afterwards that upon his release he quitted them with a degree of reluctance custom had reconciled him to the twilight admitted through the thick-barred grate to the filthy spots and patches of his plas tered walls to the hardness of his bed and even to confinement i shall specify habits which in my view are very desirable to the student and at the same time endeavot to give specific directions how to form them 1 have apian laid beforehand for ev ery day these plans ought to be maturely for med the evening previous and on rising in the morning again looked at and im mediately entered upon it is astonish ing how much more we accomplish in a single day and what of else is life made up '.) by having the plan previously mark ed out it is so in every thing this morning a man was digging a path through a deep snow-bank it was al most insupporlably cold and he seemed to make but little headway though he worked as if upon a wager at length getting out of breath he paused and mark ed out the width of the path with his sho vel then marked out the width of each shovel-full and consequently the amount of snow at each throw of the shovel in fifteen minutes he had done more and it was done neater and easier than in thir ty minutes previous when working with out a plan it is of little consequence by what we illustrate if we make a thing , clear and impress it upon the mind i i have found in my own experience as nuch difference in the labors of two days i vhen working with or without a plan | as at least one half without having the i satisfaction in the latter case of know ing what i have done experience will tell any man that he is j most successful in his own pursuits when he is most careful as to method a man â– of my acquaintance has a small slate which hangs at his study-table on that he generally finds in the morning his work for the day written down ; and in lhe evening he re views it sees if he has omitted any thing and if so chides him self that all is not done to make this clear i copy here what was found on his slate for one day as i saw it this morn ing :â€” a horse errands and dig paths b carry my child to school and pay postage bill c write from 9 till dinner*[at 1 o'clock d write to c inviting him â€” also to 1 at n h /. visit mr m sick also the two fam ilies in maple street g get some straw for horse wherever it can be purchased h prepare and preach this evening i examine the sixth vol of b to see if any thing is there which i want j last not least to lix the pump so that it will not freeze up if at the close of the day he finds these items all accomplished and that in such a way as to satisfy conscience he feels that the day has not been lost some times he finds he has misjudged and has marked out more than he can do ; some times he is hindered by unexpected inter ruptions and therefore cannot do all or even half he calculated to do these must be all weighed every night at the review be sure and review every night and when you have balanced the account with conscience lay out what you will do for the next day such a system will not make a noisy blustering character the river that rolls a heavy burden of water to the ocean is the stream which keeps the channel and is noiseless in its course there is a prescribed routine of duties marked out by your teachers these of course will come in your every-day plans ; but in ad dition to these you ought to do something by way of acquiring or retaining infor mation or something to add to the happi ness of your friends or of your compan ions let me suppose you mark out your plan for to-morrow thus : â€” 1 walk to the pond 1 1-2 mile imme ately after breakfast 2 lesson and recitation 3 write to my mother acknowledging her letter and bundle 4 review and see if i can read the gth eclogue of virgil without looking in to the dictionary or grammar regu lar course of review 5 lesson and recitation walk till tea 6 see if i can go through the 24th proposition of euclid 1st b at once â€” regular review 7 visit smith's room and explain the remark which i made to-day and at which he seemed hurt 8 lesson for the morning e 0 note the three facts respecting de mosthenes in my common-place book 10 talk over the question for dispute in the society with my chum 11 read the n 3w magazine which mo ther has just sent me at first you will feel discouraged in not being able to do as much work as you mark out but you will do more and more from day to day as you proceed ; and you will soon be astonished at seeing how much can be accomplished if you choose you can have a book instead uf a slate which will be also a kind of jour nal of your life full of interesting memo randa 2 acquire the habit of untiring indus try should you be so unfortunate as to sup i pose you are a genius and that " things will come to you it would be well to un deceive yourself as soon as possible â€” make up your mind that industry must : be the price of all you obtain and at once begin to pay down " diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises it is a matter of unatfeeted amazement to see vtihat industry alone will accomplish we are astonished at the volumes which the men of former a ges used to write but the term inelustry â€¢ is the key to the whole secret " he that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of lhe globe there is no state so bad for the student as idle ness and no habit so pernicious and j yet none is so easily acquired or so dilfi 1 ; cult to be thrown off the idle man soon grows torpid and becomes the indian in : his feelings insensibly adopting their maxim â€” " it is better to walk than to run i and better to sit than to stand and better ' 'â– â– to lie than to sit probably the man who deserves the most of pity is he who is most idle ; for as " there are said to be pleasures to madness known only to mad men there are certainly miseries in idle ness which only the idle can conceive i am aware that many are exceedingly busy who are not industrious for it ve ry frequently happens that he who is most hurried and bustling is very far from being industrious a shrewd man can easily discover the difference " he i that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavors to crowd | his mind with something that may bar | out the remembrance of his own folly j and does any thing but what he ought to ; do with eager diligence that he may \ keep himself in his own favor it is perfectly clear that he who is in dustrious has really the most of leisure ; for his time is marked out into distinct portions to each of which something is assigned ; and when the thing is dune the man is at leisure ; but a dead calm settles over him who lives an idle life â€” better that the waters be straitened and , burst over their banks than that they be i too sluggish to move at all who would ; not prefer to put to sea even in a storm and in a gale hurry over the waters ra [ ther than lie for weeks becalmed ? it is said that when scanderbeg prince of epirus was dead the turks wished to ; get his bones that each one might wear a piece near his heart and thus obtain ; some part of that courage which he had i while living and which they had too of | ten experienced in battle what a bles i sing if the idle might obtain some such j charm that would rouse them up to hab â– its of industry ! seneca assures his friend in a letter that there " was not a day in 1 which he did not either write something or read and epitomize some good author so universal has the opinion of men been on the point that in order to excel you must be industrious that idlers have re ceived the just appellation of fools at large you would be surprised to know how many hours slip away from the man who is not systematically industrious â€” " such was his unwearied assiduity and diligence that he seemed to pray con stantly to preach constantly to catechize constantly and to visit the sick exhort ing from house to house to teach as much i in the schools and spend as much time with the students and young men in fit ting them for the ministry as if he had been sequestrate from all the world be sides and yet withal to write as much us if he had been constantly shut up in his study it is easy for the student to form good plans of study and of daily habits and to draw them out on paper all perfected â€” but the dilhculty is they are found no where but on paper ; and because you cannot at once reach them you sit down and give up an untiring industry it was a matter of astonishment to europe that luther amid all his travels and active la bors could present a very perfect trans lation of the whole bible but a single word explains it all he had a rigid sys tem of doing something every day â€” " nulla dies says he in answer to the question how he did it â€” " nulla dies sine versu ;" and this^soon brought him to the close of the whole bible i have never known a man whose hab its of every-day industry were so good as those of jeremiah evarts during years of close observation in the bosom of his family i never saw a day pass without his accomplishing more than he expected and so regular was he in all his habits that i knew to a moment when i should find him with his pen and when with his tooth-brush in his hand ; and so method ical and thorough that though his papers filled many shelves when closely tied up there was not a paper among all his let ; ters correspondence editorial matter and the like which was not labelled and in its place and upon which he could not lay his hand in a moment i never knew him search for a paper ; â€” it was always in its place i have never yet met with the man whose industry was so great or who would accomplish so much in a given time " pray of what did your brother die i said the marquis spinola to sir horace vere " hf died sir replied he " of having nothing to do " alas sir said ! spinola " that is enough to kill any gen ; eral of us all domesthenes as is well known copied thucydides history eight times with his own hand merely to make himself fami liar with the style of that great man there are two proverbs one among the turks and the other among the spaniards both of which contain much that is true " a busy man is troubled wiih but one devil but the idle man with a thousand " men are usually tempted by the devil but lhe idle man positively tempts the devil how much corrupting company how many temptations to do wrong how many seasons of danger to your charac ter and damrer to the peace of your friends would you escape by forming the habit of being decidedly industrious eve ry day ! [ to be continued ] wonderful discorerics â€” we are almost daily presented with the evidences of anti-de luvian curiosities which excite the wonder of the learned in digging the levels of a kail â€¢ road in france they came to an entire mound of skeletons of elephants and other asiatic animals as if groups had been collected and overwhelmed in the dtluge in arkansas recently the bones of a mastadon were found of wonderful size â€” the hall or head of the thigh hone shows the probable length of the animal to have been forty-nine feet ! among the bones of the head was found a tusk of im mense size and weight measuring twenty-nine inches at its lanrest extremity eighteen feet in length and weighing near three hundred pounds the situation in the stru ture of the animal 1 of this immense tusk or its use cannot be de termined from the new york observer an antidote to rum a serious obstacle in the xvay of the inebri ; ate who is half persuaded to abandon his cups ! is found in the tormenting thirst his intempe ! rate habits have induced and cultivated the description of his thirst given by many from bitter expedience proves it to be an efiect pe culiar to intoxicating liquors nothing else i will produce it ; hut alcohol even in a com paratively small quantity does not fail to excite ! it it is sure to follow a night's debauch ; and as the intemperate habits become strengthened so does thirst rage with increasing power now what is the wretched victim to do when he feels this inward lire consuming his vitals ' we tell him to quit the practice of using intoxi cating drinks at once and the advice is good no other course is safe he is lost if he does not quit at once tampering with the enemy is only courting destruction but the obstacle is yet lying in his way the unfortunate man tells you of his tiery thirst and can nothing be done for him ? how can he cure his thirst i water may allay it for the moment : hut the relief is not only momentary indeed where . habits have been long confirmed water only increases the horrid burning here if we mistake not is the hidden secret of the power with which alcohol holds fast its slave water cannot quench his thirst ; and maddened with its racing he seizes again the poisoned cup to gain relief â€” a fearful method ot relief which though it drowns his thirst for the â– time is adding constant fuel to the flame that is consuming him is there then no antidote ? it is^believed there is it is believed that by substituting a simple draught of milk this alcoholic thirst may not on!v be relieved but cured l"t the ine briate who would escape from this degradation when his thirst returns â€” tor return it will be when the hour returns when he has been ac customed to gratify his appetite â€” let him make free use of milk and in a tew days he will lind his thirst entirely removed this opinion is not without the support of facts some years ago we fell in company in a stage coach with a man of respectable ap pearance who as the conversation turned upon the subject of temperance related briefly his own experience he had been a contractor on one of the canals in the western part of the state while engaged in this work he ac quired insensibly the habit of daily using in toxicating liquor though in moderate quanti ties on returning t his family he discovered that the habit had become more firmly fixed than he had ever supposed it could be the want of his " morning dr.wn his neon-day tod dy and his evening sling rendered him un easy water did not satisfy him his food had lost its relish surprised and alarmed at the strength of the habit that had thus grown upon him unperceived he saw he was in dan ger and determined however importunate hie thirst might be to resist it sueh was his , state when seeing a pitcher of milk on the ta . ble before sitting down he t<>..k a plentiful . draught ; and mark the result his thirst was slaked and he enjoyed his breakfast with a . healthful relish when the accustomed hour of 11 arrived his thirst returned though with somewhat abated strength a draught of milk again removed it ; and in a few days the cure was completed rejoiced with the discovery he communicated it to others who desired to ' break the iondage in which alcohol was ensla ving them the effect in every case he as sured rhe was similar 4o that which had given him so much happiness in his own this test j.men of my fellow passenger brought to my recollection another case bearing upon the same point i had a college class-mate dissipated notorious for his abandoned life his evil courses became known to the faculty who after employing in vain every means of ' reforming him were forced to proceed to the last resort and expel him from the institution this man on coming to the table alter his night's debauch before partaking of food w accustomed to call tor milk and to drink witn eagerness the largest quantities he could obtain having noticed the almost desperation with which he seized the milk i once enquired the cause he acknowledged the dissipation in which he had indulged the previous night de scribed the raging thirst which he endured in 1 consequence and said that milk was the only thing that could extinguish that internal fire or excite an appetite for food the above suggestions i have boon induced to make public in the hope of contributing some aid t the glorious reformation now in progress among those who have too long been passed by as lost beyond discovery we have at last discovered that there is a hope f r the poor inebriate and when he is urged to break away from his cups let him he induced to make the experiment whether milk will not slake that burning thirst and alleviate if not entirely pre vent the horrors he sutlers in the returning of his constitution to a sober healthy state an english whaler has returned to hull from davis's straits having touched at furrv-hcach the spot where captain ross the celebrated explorer and commander of the victory pass ed twenty-four lÂ«>ng months some eighteen years ago â– the surgeon of the whaler land ed in company with a beat's crew at the house which was constructed by captain rosa â€” where they found abundanee > f sti its and pro visions which though exposed to the weather for eighteen years were with the exception of some of the stores in a good state of preserva tion they consisted of fl hit sugar pickles carrots salmon dcc the three last are in can nisters hermetically sealed there were also anchors cables iron work and other things tor ships use nothing was permitted to be re moved except some trilling articles as a relic those things having been left there tor the use of distressed mariners the house is entire and with seine trifling repairs would yet afford comfortable accommodation to a crew of up wards of fifty men for sii.-h a number there is a sufficient quantity of fuel and provisions to last one winter v at a late celebration a poor man offered the following toast : " here's a health to poverty : it sticks hv you when all oilier friends forsake you mr van buren am the salt tariff of 1-27 our readers have not forgotten the indigna tion expressed a few weeks since by the editor of the enquirer at the lax laid upon salt by the tariff of 1842 it was made the theme of one of those appeals to the prejudices ot its auti-de luvians with which that paper is wont to abound whenever the editor supposes he has discovered a point upon which they are peculiarly sensi tive we are told that this tax like the frogs of egypt had insinuated itseli'into every house hold and even found its way.into the dinner pot of the poor man that this was all assertion unsustained by the least shadow of proof and that the editor very well knew it to he so we were certain at the time : and the statements of resectable nnychants dealers in the article who subscribe to the fact that salt is cheaper at this moment than it has been for years served only to confirm a foregone conviction but we will admit for an instant and for the sake ot argument that a tax on salt has the ne cessary effect of raising its price and thus im posing an additional burden on the poor man we presume it had the same effect in 1827 that it has now let us see who voted against reducing the tax on sa f t nt thi time the tm lowing statement is transcribed from the jour nal of the senate of the united states january 4 1^27 â€” mr smith of maryland from the committee of finance reported a bill repealing in part the doty on imported salt which was read and ordered to a second read ing january 5 â€” read the second time and coo sidered as in committee of the whole and on motion of mr holmes ordered that it be post poned and made the older of the day tor mon day next february 2 â€” it was a^ain the order of the dav and resumed in committee of the \\ hole when on motion of mr van buren the senate adjourned february 5 â€” the senate resumed as ia committee ef the whole the hill repealing in part the duly on our imported salt and no amendment having been made hitherto it was reported to the senate and on the question shall this bill be engrossed arid read a third time it was determined in thi affirmative i 22 navs 20 tazewell absent â€” randolph voting yea van buren say february 15 â€” the hiil having been report ed by the committee correctly engrossed was read the thiid time and on the question shall this bill pass it was decided in the affirmative it',i 24 nays 21 and the yeas and navs being demanded van buren votkb icay h tazewell not present and raudolph voting yea so the bill parsed thus it will e seen that martin van buren voted in all it stages against the bill reducing the duty on salt we do not pretend to impugn his motives }{,; may have l.nown that the uine effect would be produced whieh the tariff of 1842 has cau>e 1 viz : that a reduction of price would take place but let him hear the full burden of his sin if the tariff on salt i a reason for voting against mr clav it is likewise one fir voting against martin van bu^en â€” rtrhm>m4 whig â€¢ salt salt the locofoco free traders is their papers and speeches are con'inuallv harpinc about the " increased duty on salt "' in tie whig tariff when th fad is it is vest than tt enr i*a be . fore the duiv on silt in the present taritf is reduced below what it ever was before un der the tariffed 1Â«16 it was 2(1 cent s a bushel 1*24 " 20 Â« u ja-js " 20 " " h iv;}-2 " 10 " m " 1642 Â» 8 " yes and it should nÂ»rer he f rrr'tft^n that in favor of the tariff of l*ltj voted john c cal houn richard m johnson samuel d ngham altred cuuv>ert.and many her of thai party for tbetanftof 1824 vÂ«ted haiti van bu ren andrew jackcon thomas h benton richard m johnson jan buchanan fcr for the tariff of 1928 voted martin van buren richard m johnson tinman ii ben ton james buchanan sila wright charles a wicklitfe dec yet a duty of * cent a bushel